QGIS North America 2020

Description

The QGIS US Users Group & partners in North America are proud to announce the QGIS North America 2020 virtual conference to be held on three consecutive Fridays in July:

• Friday, July 17, 2020
• Friday, July 24, 2020
• Friday, July 31, 2020

We offer this meeting as a way to share our ideas and skills when so many in-person meetings cannot safely happen. We recognize that while we are all separated, we have the opportunity to include people in a greater diversity in locations and economic situations since travel and registration costs are not necessary. We invite participation from all over the globe, but presentation times will focus on the North American audience.

The cost to attend will be free, and we would like to suggest attendees make a donation to support QGIS at https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html

Organizing Committee

Randal Hale, Kurt Menke, Michele Tobias, Keith Jenkins, Alaina Mallette, Alex Mandel, Cliff Patterson, Guido Stein

Call for Participation

The organizers of the QGIS North America 2020 virtual conference would like to solicit proposals for participation in this conference to be held online on Friday, July 17th (and potentially Friday, July 24th, with sufficient interest) in the form of talks, workshops, birds-of-a-feather networking sessions, and ideas for other session. Sessions can focus on any aspect of QGIS and we particularly encourage talks about applications of the software, software and plugin development, and discussions of transitioning to using QGIS software from other tools.

UPDATE: The call for session proposals has closed and presenters have been notified.

Program Schedule

All times are in Eastern time.

Workshops

Workshop Registration is now open. Registration is required to attend workshops. All workshops are offered free of cost to attendees. Participation is limited to provide a quality experience for attendees, but overflow viewing will be offered streamed to YouTube.

Date	Time	Topic	Presenter
July 17	10:00-2:00	Un taller introductorio de QGIS para principiantes (Spanish language workshop)	Alaina Mallette
July 17	10:00-2:00	An Introductory QGIS Workshop for Beginners (English language workshop)	Michele Tobias
July 24	10:00-1:00	Visualizing 2D Geology with QGIS	Diane Fritz
July 31	10:00-12:00	Collecting data using Input and QGIS	Lutra Consulting

Presentations

Presentations will be streamed live to YouTube and are offered free of cost.

July 17

Time EDT	Title	Presenter	Viewing Link
10:00 AM	WORKSHOP: Intro to QGIS (English & Spanish sessions)	Michele Tobias & Alaina Mallette	Registration Required - see above
2:00 PM	Break
3:00 PM	SLYR - A bridge between ESRI and QGIS	Brett Edmond Carlock
3:30 PM	QGIS 101: Examples Galore	Gretchen Peterson
4:00 PM	Transitional Design and Lessons Learned	Mickey Dietrich
4:30 PM	Using QGIS at a 911	Randal Hale
5:00 PM	Integrating QGIS & GLOBE	Michael Jabot
5:30 PM	QGIS and the Data to Policy Project: Bringing a Geospatial Perspective to Student Research in Social Justice	Diane Fritz
6:00 PM	QGIS and democracy: Redistricting and reapportionment with QGIS	John Holden

July 24

Time	Title	Presenter	Viewing Link
10:00 AM	WORKSHOP: Visualizing 2D Geology with QGIS	Diane Fritz	Registration Required - see above
1:00 PM	Closed campus, open source: Teaching GIS during the Covid-19 crisis	David Abernathy
1:30 PM	Bird's of a Feather Session: Best Practices for Teaching QGIS Remotely	Ujaval Gandhi
2:30 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Consume your Field Collected Data Directly in QGIS Using a Plugin for Map Publishing	Marta Klarić Ravnić
4:00 PM	Old Train Maps: The Many Routes of California’s Central Pacific Railroad	Michele Tobias
4:30 PM	QGIS and GIMP for Enhancing Historic Maps	Adam Cox
5:00 PM	Bringing Local History to Life: HistoryForge meets QGIS	Robert Kibbee
5:30 PM	QGIS to the Rescue: Use of FOSS for Fair Land Assessment in a Small Vermont Town	Kerrie Bushway
6:00 PM	Applying FOSS4G in Mapping Shelter Centers for People with Disabilities in Disaster Scenarios	Adelcides Varela

July 31

Time	Title	Presenter	Viewing Link
10:00 AM	WORKSHOP: Collecting data using Input and QGIS	Lutra Consulting	Registration Required - see above
12:00 PM	A Tour of Processing Toolbox Algorithms	Ujaval Gandhi
12:30 PM	GUI Plugin for Neural Network based LULC Classification	Atishay Jain
1:00 PM	Advanced QGIS Expressions	Ujaval Gandhi
1:30 PM	QGIS in Flood Mapping	A Salim Khan
2:00 PM	Because data is outside - QField, the future of QGIS on mobile devices	Marco Bernasocchi
2:30 PM	Break
3:00 PM	Yes QGIS Server Rocks!...But Why?	Paul Blottiere
3:30 PM	Advancements in Geocoding: Integrating the MMQGIS plugin with New York State’s Authoritative Address Data	Scott Geis & Michael Minn
4:00 PM	QGIS in the sky with Diamonds (ODM)	Jeramy Davis
4:30 PM	QGIS and PostgreSQL/PostGIS as an enterprise solution: 5 features everyone should use	Clifford Patterson
5:00 PM	Dynamic GIS Layers with QGIS and Spatial Databases	Karsten Vennemann
5:30 PM	The Best New Features of QGIS 3.x	Kurt Menke
6:00 PM	From the Field to the Web	Bernie Drahola